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Thursday, July 19, 2012

19 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Oil and Gas Services Association of Quebec released ‘Debunking Durand’.

poll was released saying that 68% of Quebecers are in favor of the heavy oil industry

Exxon Mobil announced it is exiting Polish shale gas.  Conoco Phillips is also looking for someone else to take their permits forward there. 

Other PhD’s in Quebec have written books on how easy shale gas is.   Perhaps they should send their books and sage advice to Exxon Mobil and Conoco Phillips who don’t seem to get how easy it is.

 

I am published

how business models need to change to economically exploit non-conventional oil and gas projects.  Also conversely how technical methodologies need to adjust to support the new business model. 
The point of this blog, beyond blatant self-promotion, is to introduce you to Marine and Petroleum Geology.  The journal just published a scientific study on hydraulic fracturing at this link.  It studies rogue fractures.  As a published expert, let me simplify it for you.  It means the chance of hydraulic fracturing at safe depths contaminating aquifers is like the chance the moon landings were staged: possible but in the words of the researchers highly unlikely.
( Those boys who say the moon landings were staged are interesting writers. Have I been too staid ? )

 

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  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Erlebnest is a Breezy Open-Air Treehouse Retre ...
    Read the rest of Erlebnest is a Breezy Open-Air Treehouse Retreat in Germany Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Allgäu, Bingen on the Rhine, Cambium, Cambium GmBH, cocoon, Erlebnest, german treehouse, germany, tree houses, treehouse, treehouse design, treehouse hotel
  • Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop’ Train Could Travel Fro ...
    Tesla Motor’s CEO Elon Musk recently revealed his plans for a new green vehicle, dubbed the “Hyperloop” that could transport people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes flat. Musk (who brought us PayPal and the Tesla Model S electric car) recently discussed the new t ...
  • Conference Crystal Iselsberg is a Glimmering G ...
    Read the rest of Conference Crystal Iselsberg is a Glimmering Gem-Shaped Building Set High Up in the Austrian Alps Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Austrian retreat center, Daylighting, glass facade, Iselsberg Conference center, MHM architects
  • Australian Ministry Wants to Cull Great White ...
    Over the past year Australia has seen a series of shark attacks, with five deaths attributed to the Great White Shark. On Saturday, the latest victim – 24-year-old surfer Ben Linden – was fatally wounded by a shark, prompting the Western Australian Fisheries Minister, Norman Moore&#1 ...
  • French Artists Create an Aquarium Telephone Bo ...
    French lighting designer Benoit Deseille and artist Benedetto Bufalino’s aquarium is probably one of the craziest phone booth transformations we’ve seen! As phone booths become less and less useful individuals and organizations have converted the outdated communication systems into e ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • National Security Threat: Obama’s Birth Certif ...
    One of the biggest cover-ups in U.S. political history Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s cold case posse has confirmed that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is “definitely fraudulent,” prompting the media and political establishment to launch a frenzied s ...
  • Why Are So Many Bad Things Happening To America?
    Have you ever wondered why things have been going so badly for the United States in recent years? Our economy is falling apart, we have been plagued with heat, drought and endless natural disasters, our cities are absolutely crumbling, we just keep getting involved in even more wars and America ...
  • Former Monsanto Employee Exposes Fraud
    This week the Food Nation Radio Network interviewed former Monsanto employee Kirk Azevedo about his concerns with the leading biotech company's practices, a timely interview as the battle over genetically engineered (GE) food regulation continues on a state, national, and international scale. ...
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    Is the petrodollar dead? Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this. For decades, most of the nations of the world have used the U.S. dollar to buy oil and to trade with each other. In essence, the U.S. dollar has been acting as a true global currenc ...
  • NSA Analyzing Conversations In Real Time
    Spy agency has Google-style capability to search all communications The National Security Agency is storing all electronic communications and analyzing them in real time, according to former NSA employee turned whistleblower William Binney, who warns that the federal agency has a Google-style ...

Andy Worthington

  • Green London: Photos of Nunhead, Dulwich and B ...
    Green London: Nunhead, Dulwich and Blythe Hill, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to travel the whole of London by bike, taking photos of whatever interests me, and whatever I think reflects the state of London at this particular time in its history — the ongoing manifestation ...
  • Six Years without Charge or Trial: An Evening ...
    On Thursday, I’ll be taking part in an event in London to raise awareness of the plight of Talha Ahsan, a British citizen, and a poet who suffers from Asberger’s Syndrome. Talha, who also gained a first class honours degree in Arabic from SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Stud ...
  • Street Art, Sunshine and the River: Photos of ...
    Street Art, Sunshine and the River: Deptford and Greenwich, a set on Flickr. Three weeks ago, I posted my first set of photos of my journeys around London on my new Flickr account — a set I took on May 11, cycling around Greenwich and Deptford, down the hill from my home in Brockley, south ...
  • Olympics Disaster: The G4S Security Scandal an ...
    As the cracks in the Tory-led coalition government grow more and more obvious, the biggest question may be whether it is incompetence or corruption that will depose the clowns who have been pretending to run the country for the last two years. In terms of the Olympics, which, two months ago, I d ...
  • Free Omar Khadr from Guantánamo! Please Suppor ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • The Astonishing Bigotry and Paranoia of Russel ...
    Former Arizona state Senate President Russell Pearce, the author of his state’s draconian anti-immigrant law, S.B. 1070, is notorious for making outrageous claims about the supposed dangers posed by immigrants – both documented and not. In major speeches at least, Pearce usually tries to maintai ...
  • Iowa Senate Candidate Drops Out, Becomes ‘Sena ...
    A state Senate candidate in eastern Iowa has abandoned her campaign and released an astounding statement that she has become a “U.S. Senator” in the Republic for the united States of America (RuSA), the largest antigovernment “sovereign citizens” group in the country. “Let me now announce to eve ...
  • FRC Appoints Islamophobic Ex-General as Execut ...
    The Family Research Council (FRC), an anti-gay hate group that claims LGBT rights advocates want to “recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order,” announced on Friday the appointment of retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin as its new executive vice president. The press releas ...
  • Anti-LGBT Activist Targets ‘Gay Fascism’ Ordin ...
    Scott Lively, the anti-gay activist behind Abiding Truth Ministries, has been engaged in a decades-long, international campaign to demonize the LGBT community. He has lobbied on behalf of a law in Uganda to make homosexuality punishable by death and has worked hard to propagate the myth that gay ...
  • FAIR Misleads Sheriffs, Says ‘Border School’ O ...
    The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the anti-immigrant hate group behind draconian immigration enforcement laws in Arizona, Alabama and elsewhere, appears to have misled law enforcement officers about a training program it’s sponsoring in Texas, Hatewatch has learned. In an in ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Disenfranchised: Report Looks at How Voter ID ...
    Restrictive voter ID laws now in effect in ten states are putting the right to vote of at least half a million eligible voters at risk, a new report from the Brennan Center shows. read more
  • US Families of Drone Victims, Rights Groups Fi ...
    The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alongside family members of three US citizens who were killed in US drone strikes last year filed a lawsuit Wednesday against senior CIA and military officials. The lawsuit contends that the authorization of ...
  • Israel Accuses Iran In Bulgarian Bus Bombing
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blamed Iran for a bomb blast which killed at least six Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian resort of Burgas. The Israeli response, Netanyahu promised, will be powerful. "All the signs lead to Iran. Only in the past few months we have seen ...
  • Republicans Join Mounting Calls for Romney to ...
    Pressure on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns has reached a critical point as a stampede of Republican voices are now joining the call. So far Romney has released just his 2010 return and an estimate of his 2011 return. As the negative attention over the issue grows, Pema Leva wonders at TP ...
  • WikiLeaks Breaks Banking Blockade, Dares US Co ...
    Governmental transparency organization WikiLeaks took one more step towards accessing credit card donations on Wednesday after an 18 month banking blockade by US companies. The organization has announced that it has found a new gateway for receiving credit card funds through a French donation &# ...

Lifehacker

  • Webcam Presentations, Faster Android Keyboards ...
    Readers offer their best tips for giving presentations over webcam, speeding up your Android keyboard, and reminding yourself of your goals. More »
  • Remains of the Day: AT&T Shared Data Plans Com ...
    AT&T announces shared data plans, YouTube launches new face-blurring editing tool, Evernote for Mac updates with Retina support and Activity Stream, and Bing gets Foursquare integrations. More »
  • Use the exFAT File System and Never Format You ...
    Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly have to reformat it to fit which computer you're using it on. Instead of reformatting it all the time, just use the much more platform-independent ...
  • Trackpad++ Greatly Improves Your MacBook's Tra ...
    Windows (On a Mac): If you're running Windows on your killer Mac hardware, then you've probably noticed that the trackpad isn't quite as smooth and feature-filled as it is in OS X. Trackpad++ Brings more gestures, better scrolling, and lots mo ...
  • DIY PVC Sprinkler Is Dirt Cheap, Fits Lawns of ...
    Watering an entire lawn doesn't require a lot of money. For just a couple of dollars, you can make a customized lawn sprinkler out of cheap PVC piping. More »

Water Privatization

  • SYABAS: A Threat to National Security
    Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS) has become a threat to our national security by threatening 7 million consumers in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya with water rationing where there is no shortage of water.
  • Pawlowski releases details of plan to fund pen ...
    Mayor calls for leasing water and sewer plants to avert bankruptcy. Striking a somber tone, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski on Wednesday painted a dire fiscal picture of his city as he unveiled a proposal to lease the water and sewer plants for $100 million or more, a plan he said could very well b ...
  • SYABAS Has Become A Threat To Our National Sec ...
    Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS) has become a threat to our national security by threatening 7 million consumers in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya with water rationing where there is no shortage of water.
  • Water utilities have a lot of explaining to do
    Columnist Neal Cruz recently wrote a piece critical of water service providers. (Inquirer , 7/16/12) This elicited swift reactions from spokespersons of the concessionaires. Replete with denials and clarifications, the statements claimed Cruz had been misinformed and recited a litany of supposed ...
  • AWER: Selangor govt misleading public on water ...
    (Bernama) - The Selangor government should immediately stop giving misleading press statements on the current water issue as it was causing unnecessary panic among consumers, said the Association of Water and Energy Research Malaysia (AWER) Wednesday.

Guardian

  • George Zimmerman tells Fox host: I'm sorry abo ...
    George Zimmerman says he was being beaten by Trayvon Martin and feared for his life when he shot the teenagerIn his first lengthy interview, George Zimmerman has said he wanted to apologise to Trayvon Martin's parents for their son's death and insisted he was not in pursuit on the rainy night th ...
  • Japan's female athletes fly economy while men' ...
    Japan's female national football team Nadeshiko Japan placed in economy seats on flight to France sparking gender debateThey are world champions and brought hope to a nation reeling from a natural disaster, but Japan's female Olympic footballers had to make do with economy class seats during the ...
  • Terrorism charges against five after London ar ...
    Three men accused of going to Pakistan for terrorist training, while a man and a woman are charged over terrorist materialsFive people have been charged with terrorism offences following arrests by the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command. Three men from London – including Richard Dart, ...
  • Mexico presidential runner-up alleges money la ...
    López Obrador accuses president-elect Peña Nieto of using illicit funds and money laundering to finance his campaignThe runner-up in Mexico's recent presidential election has added the charge of money laundering to his efforts to get the country's electoral tribunal to invalidate the victory of ...
  • Beaminster tunnel landslip deaths: police forc ...
    Police complaints watchdog to consider tragedy in which man and woman died when car became entombedA police force that failed to find a couple whose car had been entombed in a landslip for nine days has referred the matter to the complaints watchdog.The man and woman died after mud, rubble and v ...

McClatchey

  • George Zimmerman: Trayvon Martin's death was ' ...
    After saying he did not regret any of his actions the night he killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman backtracked and apologized to America Wednesday night in his first interview since…Click to Continue »
  • Conservatism takes a right turn in Kansas politics
    There's a new political alignment in Kansas, a new and stronger strain of conservatism that has moved the right more to the right, leaving some conservative politicians looking more like…Click to Continue »
  • Leading Cuban journalist faces spy charge, rep ...
    A top Cuban journalist faces a 15-year prison sentence for spying, just two years after Raul Castro issued an unusually public praise for his expose of a scandalously botched public…Click to Continue »
  • California Gov. Brown signs high-speed rail bill
    It took the promise of nearly $2 billion in rail upgrades in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles for California Gov. Jerry Brown to secure the Legislature's support…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Let's get serious about voter supp ...
    The name of the game, remember, is not voter prevention, but voter suppression, i.e., bringing down the numbers. In the last presidential election, only 63 percent of eligible voters voted…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Bomb destroys NATO trucks in Afghanistan
    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, July 18 AFP - A Taliban bomb attack on Wednesday destroyed 22 fuel tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, local officials said, as nine Afghan soldiers ...
  • British PM British Prime Minister Pledges To P ...
    On a surprise visit to Afghanistan, the British prime minister has repeated a pledge that British combat troops will be withdrawn from the country by the end of 2014. David Cameron held talks with ...
  • Childrens circus juggles with the Taliban
    KABUL // A Canadian man and his German girlfriend are braving the Taliban to take a rickshaw on one of the world's most dangerous road trips to bring the circus to children in Afghanistan, Iran ...
  • Obama Nominates Career Diplomats To Be Afghani ...
    7/18/2012 11:30 AM ET (RTTNews) - President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was choosing two career diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Kabul to nominate as the new U.S. ambassadors to Afghanistan ...
  • David Cameron enjoys sausages with Afghanistan ...
    David Cameron shared a lunch of German sausage and potato with soldiers as he questioned them about capabilities of their Afghan ...

Futurismic

  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Senator Grassley Hammers the FDA on the Senate ...
    Once again Senator Grassley has proven himself to be a champion of whistleblowers and government oversight. The NWC applauds Senator Grassley's floor statement today and we hope that the FDA heard him. Please take a few minutes to read the Senator's statement reproduced in its entirety below. ...
  • CBS Evening News: FDA spying on their own scie ...
    NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn spoke to CBS Evening News tonight about the chilling effect the FDA's illegal whistleblower surveillance program has on employees' willingness to report serious health and safety issues. You can TAKE ACTION to stop the government's highly intrusive and ha ...
  • NWC Response to Article Documenting Illegal FD ...
    Today, the New York Times released a groundbreaking story on the government's secret spying program on a group of whistleblowers employed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  Stephen M. Kohn, the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and the lead attorney for ...
  • Twenty Years Later, DOJ Finally Admits Mistakes
    Readers of The Washington Post found out this morning that the FBI and DOJ are launching the largest post-conviction case review in American history. Readers of the Whistleblower Protection Blog know that this review should have begun twenty years ago when Dr. Frederic Whitehurst first exposed ...
  • NWC Files Amicus Brief in Major Tax Whistleblo ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) has filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in a precedent-setting whistleblower tax case pending before the U.S. Tax Court. The case, Insinga v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, alleged that the IRS delay in ruling on whistlebl ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • EU To Open Up Secret Clinical Trial Data; TPP ...
    Openness is really beginning to sweep through the European Union at all levels. Yesterday we wrote about the European Commission's ambitious plans to make the results of publicly-funded research freely available as open access; now comes news of a major opening up in the world of pharmaceutical ...
  • Patent Office Releases Rules To Let Third Part ...
    One of the big problems with the patent system is that it's not an adversarial process at all. You only have advocates for why a patent should be granted. No one is on the other side arguing why it shouldn't be. The examiner is supposed to be neutral, but actually has some implicit incentives ...
  • DailyDirt: Prosthetic Limbs -- Getting Better ...
    One of the most inspiring examples of a person using prosthetic limbs is Oscar Pistorius (aka the "Blade Runner") -- who will be the first leg amputee to compete with carbon fiber feet at the London Olympics. Pistorius was previously disqualified from the 2008 Olympics, but he'll be allowed to c ...
  • Holy Conflict Of Interest! Tell Congress That ...
    We recently wrote about the fact that PIPA sponsor and head of the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Patrick Leahy has received yet another cameo appearance in the latest Batman flick. We're sure it's because of his acting skills, rather than his ability to pass legislation that favors Time Wa ...
  • Answer Some Trivia Questions To Get A Free Cop ...
    Well, well. Last week, we posted an excerpt from Rob Reid's awesome Year Zero novel, and offered up free copies to the commenters who got the highest ranked voting. In retrospect, perhaps we should have realized this effort was going to fail. Whether it was "performance anxiety" from commente ...

VacTruth

  • U.S. Government & Whistleblowers Sue Merck Abo ...
    Why didn’t the media and press report the 2010 complaint filed against Merck’s fraudulent mumps vaccine? Isn’t it about time the U.S. healthcare consumer found out that it apparently cannot trust the CDC or FDA or Big Pharma when it comes to vaccines and vaccinations, the ‘Sacred Cow’ of modern ...
  • 7 Shameful Examples of Big Pharma Fraud
    Over the last few months many drugs companies have hit the headlines for allegedly committing fraud.
  • Why Isn’t the U.S. ‘Free’ Press Reporting Vacc ...
    Feel encouraged to take action. What do you say?
  • How Doctors Try to Take the Pain Out of Vaccin ...
    If you’re hesitant to have your baby vaccinated because of the pain caused by the injections, you’ll be happy to know that there is a new method that will significantly reduce your baby’s pain and lessen your anxiety.
  • Proof Armed Forces are Given Untested and Expe ...
    In October 2000 a letter was written to the editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association discussing the introduction of the MMR vaccination containing the Schwarz measles, Urabe Am9 mumps and Wistar RA27/3 rubella strains, as mandatory in 1998 to examine the vaccine's efficiency. On ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    That piñata is so great. If only I had a kids party to go to. What is inside, do you think? P.S. If you are ever bored at work, googling “BDSM Piñata” is hours of entertainment. Three quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have mobile phones. That’s amazing. My tweet of ...
  • Tosh and the Problem with “Rape Culture& ...
    By now you have no doubt heard that Daniel Tosh suggested it would be funny if a woman in his audience was gang raped and the internets are ablaze with talk of rape culture. I wasn’t planning on weighing in on this. Frankly, I just wasn’t that interested in the controversy. But since ...
  • Encouraging (in)Visibility
    I am one of those people who would rather be in the coffin than delivering the eulogy.  I am also one of those people who takes a while to get to know someone, especially when I’m thrown into a whole group of new people. The result of those two things is that I am often [...]
  • Hellllooooooooooooo
    Anybody still out there? I keep trying to get back to this blog and life keeps conspiring against me. But if I don’t do it soon, my new roommate is likely to walk in on me ranting out loud in a way that may compel her to have me institutionalized. You really have to introduce [...]
  • Interview on KDVS
    Still trying to get back on my regular posting schedule, hopefully this coming week. In the meantime, Richard Estes was kind enough to invite me on his show Speaking in Tongues. You can listen here.

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Assad — whereabouts unknown
    Reuters reports: Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, a day after a bomber killed and wounded his security chiefs and rebels closed in on the centre of Damascus, vowing to “liberate” the capital. The Syrian leader made no public appearan ...
  • Washington begins to plan for collapse of Syri ...
    The New York Times reports: With the growing conviction that the Assad family’s 42-year grip on power in Syria is coming to an end, Obama administration officials worked on contingency plans Wednesday for a collapse of the Syrian government, focusing particularly on the chemical weapons that Syr ...
  • Is Hezbollah ready for a post-Assad future?
    In a speech in Beirut today, Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah made a nod to the Syrian people when he referred their “rightful demands” but the popular resistance leader did not acknowledge that the Syrians have to right to take up arms in pursuit of those demands. On ...
  • How one Syrian city won the revolution without ...
    The Washington Post reports from Yabrud: The flag of the revolution flies high above this prosperous town in southwestern Syria. Each week, thousands take to the streets to demonstrate peacefully. Rebels roam freely — but without weapons. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has lo ...
  • Video: Rami al Khouri discusses the Assad regi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Gen-X ers don’t care about climate change
    From the University of Michigan , recognition of a whole new crop of, ahem, deniers. I can hear Joe Romm’s head exploding from my house. Generation X is surprisingly unconcerned about climate change ANN ARBOR, Mich.—As the nation suffers through … Continue reading →
  • What else did the ’97% of scientists&#82 ...
    Guest Post by Barry Woods I wonder just how many politicians, environmentalists or scientists who use the phrase ’97% of scientists’ (or those who more carefully use ‘active climate scientists’) to give weight to their arguments regarding climate change to the public, hav ...
  • Is global warming just another ‘End-of-t ...
    New end of the world book treats climate change just like many other end of times worries that have not come to pass. Weston, FL — (SBWIRE) — 07/16/2012 — The end of the world is not going to happen … Continue reading →
  • Researchers publish results of iron ocean fert ...
    From the Alfred Wegener Institute and the what took you so long department comes this interesting result. Carbon sequestration via algal blooms that sink to the sea floor after expiring – just add iron. The results, which were published in … Continue reading →
  • Climategate investigation closed – statu ...
    Bishop Hill has the press release from from Norfolk Constabulary (H/T Leo H) Norfolk Constabulary has made the decision to formally close its investigation into the hacking of online data from the Climate Research Centre (CRU) at the University of … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • The Benefits of Daydreaming
    Does your mind wander? During a class or meeting, do you find yourself staring out the window and thinking about what you’ll do tomorrow or next week? As a child, were you constantly reminded by teachers to stop daydreaming? Well, psychological research is beginning to reveal that daydreaming is ...
  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here
    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of coyotes over the sound of a campsite conversation, you do so by attending to the sound and becoming conscious of their howls. When you attend to your sparring opponent out of th ...
  • Cytoskeleton Microtubules
  • Think that’s not fair? Your serotonin transpor ...
    “That’s not FAIR!” This is the line that rings through most houses with at least one kid. We all know when something’s not fair. That car that drove up the shoulder while you waited in traffic (rrrrr)? That’s a cheater, and that’s not fair. The person who cut in line at the grocery store instead ...
  • Mouse ‘avatars’ could aid pancreat ...
    Mouse ‘avatars’ could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumour before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) in Australia last week. “Using a ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Piloted Spaceship Delayed Two More Years
    Russia's projected manned spacecraft capable of flights to the moon will not fly until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Wednesday, at least two years later than its previous projected flight date of 2015-16.
  • Russia’s ‘Floating University’ Traces Gulf Stream
    Russia’s Arctic Floating University has possibly discovered a new branch of the Gulf Stream in the Barents Sea during its inaugural trip this summer, program managers said on Tuesday.
  • Russian Soyuz Docks with Space Station
    Russia’s Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, Mission Control said.
  • Russian Space Lab Launch Delayed Again
    The launch of Russia's "Nauka" (Science) multirole laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station has been set back from the end of this year to the end of next year due to technological and organizational problems at the Khrunichev Space Center, the head of Russia's Energia space c ...
  • International Space Station

Pruning Shears

  • Quantifying the impact of the Republican agenda
    I attended a local government meeting earlier this month in order to keep up with the latest on fracking in our town. Something else interesting happened as well. The meeting began with a budget review. Budget reviews are long and drawn out affairs even when they’re not, if you know wha ...
  • The view of fracking from San Pablo Bay
    Marvin Patten is an environmental health science student at Kent State University. The following letter was presented to the Kent city council earlier this year. The recent struggle over the disposal of fracking fluid sent to Warren’s Patriot Water System treatment plant gives renewed im ...
  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...
  • "No Justice, No Pizza!" - A Call to Action
    Workers at the Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wis., went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line eight hours a day, six days a we ...
  • Palermo's Pizza Workers Strike in Milwaukee
    Workers at a Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line six days a week for two weeks, ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • Important letter to House Agriculture Committee
    The House Agriculture Committee began marking up the farm bill this morning. As we’ve described in past posts, this bill has significant implications for public health. CLF sent the letter (below) to the House Agriculture Committee, emphasizing important changes needed in the bill in order ...
  • Public Health Relies on Environmental Stewards ...
    Dan Glickman says that we revere the farmer, and I agree. Farmers know that conservation is critical to their success in the long term, and we all know that conservation is critical to human health. This month, as the House debates the farm bill, we’ll see how our representatives in Congress rea ...
  • Meatless Monday and Meat Without Drugs
    In a concise, accurate, and artful video directed by Robert Kenner (director of Food, Inc.) in consultation with CLF, the Meat without Drugs campaign highlights how industrial farming practices facilitate the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the threats that these bacteria pose ...
  • Book aims to fast-track transition to sustaina ...
    What progress has the U.S. made in the area of sustainable development? What are the barriers to further progress? How do we overcome them?
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Support ...
    What’s better than a government program that improves the health of SNAP participants, while simultaneously driving local economic activity and addressing health care costs?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Lord Monckton Breaks Down the Rio Conference
    Interview noting the changed focus of the 'environmental' concerns of the UN Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What the Frack!?!
    In more and more areas across America, families are discovering to their astonishment that their "water" has turned combustible. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Nessie is being used to debunk evolution -- on ...
    Government-subsidized private schools will start teaching that the Loch Ness Monster is a factual living creature and use it to debunk evolution in science classes. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Never Ending Vandalism
    Collected articles including hydrofracking and Gulf of Mexico blowout information re: health risks from chemicals Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Till Death Do Us Part
    Afghans (and Pakistanis in tribal areas across the border) surely know the rules of the road of the American war: there is no sanctity in public or private rites. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
    Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- New ...
    Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Spooks off the hook but torture fight continue ...
    Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mapuche women assaulted by police, have crimin ...
    Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbia ...
    Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbian border | Demotix.com: Police cordons blocked the road outside the northern town of Podujevo, some six kilometers (four miles) from the border with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Through the Eyes of a Goose
    Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, all life is precious, right down to one little baby gosling, fresh from the egg. And as I discovered during my journey on the road to raising Little E.D. the Endurance Goose, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had just from the simple task of lear ...
  • Danish Farmer Reverses Illnesses in pigs by re ...
    A Danish farmer has gained huge public recognition for publishing his simple method for ridding his pigs of illness- removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from their diet.
  • Did Rand Paul even read the GMO labeling amend ...
    Text of SA 2310. Read what it really says instead of what they tell you it says.
  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
  • Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
    Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Taliban bomb destroys 22 NATO supply trucks in ...
    ShareThisTaliban bomb destroys 22 NATO supply trucks in Afghan north 18 Jul 2012 A bomb planted by the Taliban destroyed 22 NATO trucks carrying supplies to their forces in northern Afghanistan, the Taliban and police said on Wednesday. Eighteen fuel trucks and four supply vehicles were parked i ...
  • Five Charged With Terror Offences
    ShareThisFive Charged With Terror Offences --One charged with possession of a digital memory card 'containing a document likely to be of use to a terrorist' 19 Jul 2012 Five people have been charged with terrorism offences following investigations by the Metropolitan Police counter terrorism com ...
  • Japan to probe 'active faults' under nuclear p ...
    ShareThisJapan to probe 'active faults' under nuclear plants 18 Jul 2012 Japan's nuclear safety watchdog has ordered an investigation into claims that the country's only working nuclear power station sits on an active tectonic fault. The decision comes after geological experts argued that the Sh ...
  • FBI launches criminal investigation into how n ...
    ShareThisAirline catering firm that employs thousands in UK at centre of investigation into how NEEDLES were found in sandwiches on four flights --FBI launches criminal investigation into the needle discoveries 17 Jul 2012 The world's largest airline food caterer, which employs thousands of peop ...
  • HSBC 'sorry' for aiding Mexican drug lords, ro ...
    ShareThisHSBC 'sorry' for aiding Mexican drug lords, rogue states and terrorists 17 Jul 2012 Executives with Europe's biggest bank, HSBC, were subjected to a humiliating onslaught from US senators on Tuesday over revelations that staff at its global subsidiaries laundered billions of dollars for ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
  • VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
    We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Military Professionals Discussing the MEDEVAC ...
    18 July 2012 Increasing numbers of high-ranking military officers and veterans agree that the time has come for change.  Support from lawmakers continues to grow.  Army helicopter medical evacuation (Dustoff) polices are outdated and costing lives.  Our current polices even viola ...
  • We Are Still #1 (somehow)
    11 July 2012 Thank you for the tremendous support through the years.  We are just getting warmed up, though I am in a transition stage while completing a book.  I remain serious about potentially transitioning over to US/Mexico focused work. Meanwhile, this military blog rank came ac ...
  • Carl Prine, Bombs, Brain Damage, and our Respo ...
    10 July 2012 These wars have left us with thousands of troops and civilians who may have sustained brain damage from explosions.  Recently, my friend Carl Prine, a military combat veteran of Iraq, terminated his writing on Line of Departure due to apparent brain damage.  Carl believes ...
  • Angels Over Afghanistan
    F/A-18C Hornet named after SPC Chazray Clark Father’s Day 17 June 2012 The US Navy has named an F/A-18C Hornet after Specialist Chazray Clark, who was killed in action last September in Afghanistan.  The jet bearing Chazray’s name is now flying combat operations over Afghanistan and may w ...
  • Proof That Military Puts Media Message before ...
    31 May 2012 The following document was provided by a source within the military.  This document proves that a decision was made not to arm vehicles during serious fighting because it would convey the wrong STRATCOM (strategic communications) message. To download as a PDF please click he ...

The Killing Train

  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Multinational food giants eye spot at Burma’s ...
    The US eased sanctions against the impoverished country late last week, days before a massive delegation of America’s biggest business names visited Rangoon over the weekend to explore investment opportunities
  • Meth seized in Shan state, dealers killed in M ...
    Burmese authorities on Monday hailed progress in their war on drugs after a multi-million dollar seizure at a narcotics factory in eastern Shan state as drug dealers were gunned down in northern Thailand
  • Burma considers joining transparency drive for ...
    Senior government officials met this week with a delegation from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to discuss plans for Burma to implement the global anti-corruption drive
  • Farmers hold first official protest in Rangoon
    About 200 farmers in Rangoon’s Mingalardon township took to the streets to protest in the wake of a land dispute with Zaykabar Company after receiving the green-light from authorities to demonstrate
  • The not so new rulers
    Now that most major sanctions against Burma have been dropped, who is set to profit most as the country continues its 'reform' process?

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Hungary charges suspected ex-Nazi with war crimes
    [JURIST] Hungarian authorities on Wednesday took into custody a 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The man alleged to be Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Budapest after the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) [advocacy website], a Je ...
  • Chile charges former air force colonels with 1 ...
    [JURIST] Chile on Tuesday arrested and charged two retired air force colonels for their roles in the 1974 death of an air force brigadier general who was also the father of Chile's first female president. Colonels Ramon Caceres and Edgar Ceballos were charged with orchestrating the torture that ...
  • Rights groups sue over deaths from CIA drone s ...
    [JURIST] The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Wednesday challenging the US government's targeted killing of three US citizens in drone strikes. Senior al Qaeda [GlobalSecurity ...
  • UAE arrests prominent lawyer in ongoing crackd ...
    [JURIST] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) detained a prominent human rights lawyer on Tuesday after also arresting his son and brother-in-law, bringing to 25 the total number of Islamist dissidents detained since late March. Mohammed al-Roken, 50, who last year co-defended five Islamists stripped ...
  • Second Wisconsin judge finds voter ID law unco ...
    [JURIST] A judge for Wisconsin's Dane County Circuit Court [official website] ruled [order] Tuesday that the state's voter identification law [text, PDF] is unconstitutional, issuing a permanent injunction against the law's enforcement. Judge David Flanagan is the second Dane County judge to str ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...
    By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Tourists Attacked in Bulgaria, 7 Dead, ...
    An Israeli tourist bus was bombed at the airport of the Bulgarian resort of Burgas today.  Haaretz reports that seven are dead.  Bibi Netanyahu has blamed Iran for the attack.  Pres. Obama has condemned it as “barbaric” terrorism.  Before I get into the meat of what I want to say, I ...
  • Shin Bet Goes on Palestinian Arrest Spree
    The Shin Bet appears to have gone on a tear in arresting Israeli Palestinians over the past few weeks.  There are now at least four who’ve been arrested, the last three under gag.  I reported on the first arrest, of Dr. Eyad Jawhari of Majdal Shams earlier this month.  He is still imprison ...
  • U.S. Counter Terror Policy Brought to You by O ...
    This is a slightly expanded version of an article published earlier today at Antiwar.com: I’ve written several critical appraisals of Spies Against Armageddon, Yossi Melman’s trashy spy novel which passes for a sober account of the Mossad’s heroics.  After reading Marcia Cohen& ...
  • Mahdi Virus Attacks Computers Throughout Middl ...
    This just in: many of you have heard of the Shiite messiah known as the Mahdi.  Well it appears He reads Eli Lake.  Who’d a thunk it? Let me explain: an Israeli cybersecurity company, Seculert, discovered a malware program it dubbed Mahdi, which was infecting computers primarily in Iran, t ...
  • Knesset Exempts Shin Bet from Recording Interr ...
    Israel has a law that requires police and security officials to record their interrogations of suspects who are charged with crimes carrying a sentence of ten years or more.  That sounds great, right?  Just the way a democracy should work.  But hold on.  There’s a hole in the law big enoug ...

If Americans Knew

  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
  • How to Contact the US Government and Media
    Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
  • Remember Rachel Corrie
    On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
  • US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
    Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • SocMap.com Debuts Map App PublicConsultation
    As we mentioned in a previous post, this spring we at SocMap.com discovered the best path for further development -- namely, by creating small, specialized map apps. The first application of this kind was our HotBills app, which allowed journalists to reach 2% of the population for their investi ...
  • DocumentCloud Hiring a Developer to Work on It ...
    We have a lot of projects going on at DocumentCloud, and to serve those goals, we're looking for others to join us! For those who may be unfamiliar with our project, we've included the full details below. DocumentCloud is a web-based platform allowing journalists to upload, analyze, annot ...
  • Watchup's 'Lasagna Design' Creates a Newsreel ...
    It's 7 a.m. You want to catch up with the news on your iPad, but you don't want to jump from one app to another -- tap here, tap there. You just want to discover the best and latest news videos in a snap. Meet Watchup. Available in Apple's App Store, Watchup lets you create your newscast in s ...
  • The Tiziano Project Debuts StoriesFrom
    On Saturday, The Tiziano Project launched StoriesFrom -- a new, open platform for community-based storytelling. The site allows individuals and organizations to easily create immersive documentary projects that combine the work of both community members and professional journalists and fil ...
  • At Datafest: Journalists, Scientists, and Engi ...
    Datafest, a two-day contest to analyze campaign finance data that I organized last month at Stanford, was one of the best experiences of my wonderful year as a Knight Fellow. The event was a lot of fun and a great opportunity to learn. It produced very interesting insights and illuminated possib ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Jews and Christians - Malcolm Hoenlein Rocks C ...
    Malcolm Hoenlein rocked CUFI on Tuesday. Christianson United for Israel held their annual policy conference July 16-18, 2012 in Washington's gargantuan Convention Center.Hoenlein, the long-time executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, ...
  • The London Olympics - Why the Olympics Won't M ...
    Jewish Blood Is Cheap! One minute... That's all the families of 11 Israeli terror victims want from this year's summer Olympics. One minute to memorialize the 11 Israeli athletes who were murdered at the hands of Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich games.But they won't get it. The Olympic ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Will the Rebels Win Syr ...
    The tide seems to be turning in Syria. While the civil war is far from over, the regime is clearly weakening; the rebels are expanding their operations and effectiveness. There have also been more high-level defections. What does this mean and why is this happening There are three main factors t ...
  • The Defense Edge - U.S. Pacific Focus Needs to ...
    The Obama administration's intention to shift military resources to the Pacific satisfies American objectives, including enhancing stability and bilateral relations, and, perhaps most importantly, expanding economic opportunities. Broadening the scope of this shift, or "pivot," as it is oft ...
  • The Race for Solar - China’s Trina Solar Wan ...
    The disruption to Jordan’s natural gas supply from Egypt has finally awoken a sleeping giant: renewable energy. Long focused on oil shale and nuclear energy instead of renewable sources, the Kingdom has recently entered negotiations with no fewer than 20 international wind and solar-energy sup ...

High Country News

  • Following Dad down the road
  • Black Sunday, 30 years later
    The author attends a peculiar reunion, a meeting with the former Exxon executives who pulled the plug on oil shale three decades ago.
  • The West, in pictures
    High Country News showcases a selection of photos submitted to SAGE Magazine, a student-run environmental magazine at the Yale Forestry School. The images include beautiful wildlife photography and poignant illustrations of humans' relationship to the natural world.
  • Beyond the politics of no
    The Sonoran Institute's departing founder, Luther Propst, reflects on 20 years of collaborative conservation.
  • The Forest Service faces a test in Arizona
    Will Forest Service efforts under the 4FRI program to reduce fuels in Arizona pay off? This summer will tell.

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • Did Obama Help Romney Find His Mojo?
    The complaints from the GOP side of the aisle were getting louder all last week. There was real worry that Mitt Romney was blowing the campaign. His message was all over the place, wasn't answering attacks, and being too nice.  Quite frankly his call for an Obama apology was totally ...
  • Sorry For The Posting Slowdown
    Folks I apologize if I have been putting up fewer posts than normal--the herniated disc in my neck is hurting again worse than ever. Its hard to concentrate and my left hand is numb. I will do my best to pick up the pace...please bear with me --JeffPlease email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to b ...
  • Yankee Go Home! Saith the "Good Guys"
    By Barry Rubin "Which Side Are You On?/They say in Harlan County/There are no neutrals there./You'll either be a union man/Or a thug for J. H. Blair." --Florence Reece, "Which Side are You On?" 1931 The interesting news was not that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pelted with stuff w ...
  • If Bain Capital Is So Evil Why Do All These De ...
    If you believe the Democratic Party, Bain Capital is nothing but a bunch of vampire capitalists. They outsource jobs to other countries, close steel mills and take lollypops from little babies. According to Open Secrets, during the present election cycle these Democratic Party candidates took ...
  • Newsbusted: Twenty Spectators Lose Consciousne ...
    Apparently when you attend a rally for president Obama you are really taking your life in your hands.  At a rally the other day, twenty spectators passed out cold on the floor.  Thankfully no one's head was hurt. Immediately the secret service suspected foul play, but eventually they d ...

The Real Agenda

  • España cumple con letales políticas económicas ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 18 JULIO, 2012 Mariano Rajoy y su gobierno han dado otra señal de que no está dispuesto a ejecutar al pueblo español a través de las políticas propuestas y aplicadas por el gobierno europeo, después de que se acordó rescatar a la nación peninsular c ...
  • Obama birth record ‘definitely fraudulen ...
    The following is a compilation of news reports regarding Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigation of Barack Obama’s fraudulent records as reported today. THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 18, 2012 From Associated Press Investigators for an Arizona sheriff’s volunteer posse have declared th ...
  • “Somos absolutamente escravos dos bancos ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 17 JULHO, 2012 Nao foi um segredo por muito tempo, mas os espectadores raramente assistem ou ouvem os convidados na  mídia não apenas aceitar o fato de que somos todos escravos que trabalham para os bancos centrais, mas também admitindo-o, na televi ...
  • Italy ready to beg for a Bailout
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 17, 2012 The time for handouts doesn’t seem to end in Europe. After ‘solving’ the Spanish problems, the European bankers are now looking forward to ‘rescuing’ Italy from financial disaster. Italy will be the sixth n ...
  • “Somos absolutamente esclavos de los ban ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 17 JULIO, 2012 No ha sido un secreto durante mucho tiempo, pero muy pocas veces los espectadores ven o escuchan a los invitados a principales medios de comunicación no sólo aceptar el hecho de que todos somos esclavos que trabajan para los banqueros ...

Wind Watch

  • PSC staff: time to throw out Galloo Island win ...
    In a strongly worded statement, the staff of the state Public Service Commission says it’s time to end the Galloo Island wind farm. The staff is asking that Galloo Island’s case before the Public Service Commission be dismissed. Technically, the staff refers to the power line that wo ...
  • Protesters stop Lowell turbine truck
    LOWELL — Though it was billed as just a “rally” and an opportunity for opponents of the Lowell Mountain wind project to “greet the turbines” as they arrived, Monday’s confrontation here turned into a brief but intense exercise in civil disobedience. Gathering across Route 100 from the gate to th ...
  • Neighbors plead with Board of Health to order ...
    Falmouth Board of Health announced last night that there has been some minor progress in the attempt to get a state assessment of health effects of wind turbines. Chairman Gail A. Harkness said she has an appointment to talk to Suzanne Condon, Massachusetts Department of Public Health associate ...
  • Antrim to fight for control of subdivisions
    ANTRIM — The town’s planning board does not agree that a state panel has the jurisdiction to subdivide land on Tuttle Hill for a proposed wind farm. Board members say determining land use regulations in Antrim is their job, and if the N.H. Site Evaluation Committee rules otherwise, it could crea ...
  • AWEA increases political donations in PTC push
    The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is stepping up its election year political donations as it works to stave off expiration of the $0.022/kWh production tax credit (PTC) at the end of this year, with close to half going to Republican candidates so far this year. According to documents f ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Some Thoughts on Obamacare, Part II
    Like almost all government programs and offices, the Affordable Care Act is named for its intended consequences rather than its likely, unintended ones.
  • Malware: How Government Destroys Wealth
    From the air, there is no indication that the state of California is in financial trouble.  Flying into Los Angeles one sees the city’s immense wealth: hundreds of factories, warehouses, and stores; highways and bridges; tens of thousands of houses; countless cars and trucks. What cannot b ...
  • Study Says Raising Tax Rates Would Harm Small ...
    “Should Congress allow the tax rates for the nation’s highest earners to expire at the end of the year, millions of small businesses could be forced to cut jobs and wages, placing an enormous strain on the already sluggish economic recovery, according to a new study. . . . Commissioned by ...
  • AmeriCorps, Other Programs on House Chopping Block
    “House Republicans Tuesday unveiled legislation to get rid of AmeriCorps, the national service program, and cut off federal funding for National Public Radio, public television and Planned Parenthood.” (USA Today) People are perfectly capable of funding these things voluntarily. FEE ...
  • When Free Speech Collides with Occupational Li ...
    The Supreme Court has said surprisingly little about the ability of occupational licensing laws to trump free speech. Steve Cooksey’s case presents an ideal opportunity for the high court to finally address this unresolved issue.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...
  • To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Co ...
    Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate.  All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.  This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corp ...
  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...
  • Stop bailing out banks
    The correct thing to do is to force them to take their losses, making the shareholders and bondholders eat it.  Kick out the management, cut the banks up into smaller entities then refloat.  It is cheaper, avoids moral hazard and leaves you with banks which are actually solvent and can lend. The ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
    An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
  • US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
    Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
  • NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
    A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
  • Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
    More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
  • Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
    Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

  • The New Geography Of Success In The U.S. And T ...
    This year’s presidential election is fast becoming an ode to diminished expectations. Neither candidate is advancing a reasonable refutation of the conventional wisdom that America is in the grips of a “new normal” — an era of low growth, persistently high unemployment an ...
  • Housing Affordability Protests Occurring in "L ...
    The Economist has published another in its city rating series, under the headline "The Best city in the World." This one was the result of a contest examining ways to elaborate on its rating system. The winner, Filippo Lovato, added a spatial dimension to the ratings, which include ...
  • State of Chicago: The Decline and Rise
    I’ve had it in my head for over a year now to do an in-depth exploration of Chicago, a project I’ve called “State of Chicago.” This is the first a series of pieces that expand on the themes in my recent article “The Second-Rate City?” First, I’d l ...
  • Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?
    Today’s youth, both here and abroad, have been screwed by their parents’ fiscal profligacy and economic mismanagement. Neil Howe, a leading generational theorist, cites the “greed, shortsightedness, and blind partisanship” of the boomers, of whom he is one, for having “brought the global ...
  • China's French Connection
    No two countries would appear more divergent than France and China, especially in the age of Eurozone collapse. One country represents the Asian future, while the other is the capital of the failed, if diverting, old world. The French recently elected a socialist president and assembly on the ...

GM Watch

  • Coming your way: a toxic cloud of 2,4-D
    1.Herbicide-resistant weeds mean harsher chemicals 2.Drift Happens 3.Bad idea: Dow's 2,4-D seeds --- --- 1.Herbicide-resistant weeds mean harsher chemicals Rachel Swick Mavity Cape Gazette, July 11 2012 [extracts] http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/capelife/story/herbicide-resistant-weeds-mean-h ...
  • Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GM plant ...
    Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GMO crop oversight Charles Abbott and Carey Gillam Reuters, July 17 2012  http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL2E8IHEXE20120717?sp=true * Provisions would ease path to market for GMO crops * Foes see "Monsanto Rider" weakening regulation * Fo ...
  • Bill Gates should forget GM crops
    EXTRACT: The scientists receiving this grant have themselves admitted that this research will not yield any results for at least 10 years. Other research into this area suggests it may require 20 years. But given the evidence that exists from GM research over the past 15 years one really must qu ...
  • GMO-free regions conference 2012
    GMO-free Regions Conference 2012 – 4th & 5th of September in Brussels http://www.jnm.be/forum/viewtopic.php?start=0&t=1244 Invitation Dear Friends, We are happy to invite you to our 7th GMO-free regions conference which will be held on the 4th and 5th of September in Brussels. We hope that yo ...
  • European consultation on GM animals
    European consultation on GM animals http://www.genewatch.org/sub-570976 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a consultation on environmental risk assessment of genetically modified GM fish, insects, birds, and mammals (including pets, wild and farm animals) in the European Union ...

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Cryptogon

  • Greece: Official Projection of Result: New Dem ...
    Via: BBC Liveblog: That is from the Greek interior ministry, quoted by Reuters.
  • Living Large in a Tiny House
    Via: Yahoo Finance: Imagine living in a space that measures a mere 168 square feet, more than 14 times smaller than the average American home. That’s the reality for one family of four who, for the past year, has been living in their “Tiny House” tucked away in the rural mountains of Virginia. I ...
  • Ottawa Airport Wired with Microphones to Recor ...
    Via: Ottawa Citizen: Sections of the Ottawa airport are now wired with microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is nearing completion of a $500,000 upgrade of old video cameras used to monitor its new “customs controlled areas,” includ ...
  • China Launches Its First Female Astronaut Into ...
    Via: PC Magazine: China on Saturday launched its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft carrying three astronauts, including Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman to travel to space. The Long March-2F rocket lifted off successfully from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:37 p.m local time an ...
  • Financial Firms Ready ‘Special Teams’
    Via: New York Times: The banks are on high alert. Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece’s pivotal election. They are preparing for the worst case. The fear is that the vote will heighten the chances of Greec ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs That All Point To The Exact Same Thin ...
    The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble.  There aren't enough jobs.  There isn't enough money to go around.  Business activity is slowing down again.  Household wealth has been falling.  Food prices have been rising.  Many state and local governments all over the count ...
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    Is the petrodollar dead?  Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this.  For decades, most of the nations of the world have used the U.S. dollar to buy oil and to trade with each other.  In essence, the U.S. dollar has been acting as a tru ...
  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...

Desertification

  • Midwest Drought (The Permaculture Project)
    Read at : http://www.permacultureproject.com/midwest-drought-threatens-crops-livelihoods-and-food-prices/ Midwest Drought Threatens Crops, Livelihoods and Food Prices How in the world does this get translated into “food” prices? They are not growing food, are they? Yes, livelihoods. Are they thr ...
  • HUERTA VERTICAL DE BOTELLAS DE PLASTICO (Wille ...
    VIDEO : This video was prepared as a document with photos by a Spanish-speaking friend of which I lost his email-message.  Hoping to locate him again.   COMO HACER LA HUERTA VERTICAL DE BOTELLAS DE PLASTICO   http://youtu.be/2mx-lzPz2DM
  • Reclamation of desertified, sandified land in ...
    Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/china-battles-desertification/ China Battles Desertification By Manipadma Jena Reclamation of desertified, sandified land on either side of the Sudu desert road in Wengniute County, China, is well under way. CHIFENG, Inner Mongolia, China, Jul 5 2012 (IPS ...
  • Drylands, Deserts & Desertification Conference ...
    Read at : http://twittercounter.com/tweet/MzE4NjEwMjg CONFERENCES: 4th International Drylands, Deserts & Desertification Conference at BGU From “Patricia Golan” @exchange.bgu.ac.il> ========================================== November 12-15, 2012 Sede Boqer Campus (Ben Gurion ...
  • The “Million Tree Project”, a local initiative ...
    Read at : http://www.sca.com/en/media/news-features/archive/sca-news-2012/sca-fights-desertification-in-china/ SCA fights desertification in China In Inner Mongolia SCA is taking an active part in the fight against desertification, with donating and planting trees to support “Million Tree Projec ...

The Paper Trail

  • U.S. official says government wasted $6-8 bill ...
    The official in charge of monitoring America’s $51 billion effort to reconstruct Iraq has estimated that $6 billion to $8 billion of that amount was lost to waste, fraud and abuse. Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) for the past eight years, gave th ...
  • Body brokers leave trail of questions, corruption
    In April 2003, Robert Ambrosino murdered his ex-fiancée — a 22-year-old aspiring actress — by shooting her in the face with a .45-caliber pistol. Then he turned the gun around and killed himself.Soon after, Ambrosino’s corpse entered the United States’ vast tissue-donation system, his skin, ...
  • Human corpses are prize in global drive for pr ...
    On Feb. 24, Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in a grimy white minibus.Investigators grew even more intrigued when they found, amid the body parts, envelopes stuffed with cash and autopsy results written in English.   What t ...
  • Vote set for quixotic bill that would reveal a ...
    A bill designed to reveal the donors behind anonymously funded political attack ads is scheduled to hit the floor of the Senate Monday — however, the legislation has virtually no chance of passing, and even if it did pass, it still wouldn’t go into effect until after the 2012 election.The origin ...
  • IMPACT: Labor Dept. assembling expert team on ...
    Federal regulators are assembling a team of lawyers and other experts to consider how to bolster coal mine dust enforcement given systemic weaknesses revealed by an investigation into the resurgence of black lung by the Center for Public Integrity and NPR, according to an internal Labor Departme ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]
  • Chip bandits and Nic Cage: Canada’s very ...
    It’s been a very good week for Canadian students on the internet. Or perhaps a very bad one. First, York University student Vanessa Hojda went viral after she accidentally attached a picture of actor Nicolas Cage to a job application, rather than her resumé. It wasn’t so much the fac ...

libcom

  • Strike and Lockout at Chung Hong Electronics ...
    05_chunghong.resized2.jpg In the past few months, a struggle of dozens of workers has taken place at the Chinese Chung Hong Electronics factory, a supplier of LG in a Polish Special Economic Zone in K ...
  • Genoa 2001: two of the activists sentenced las ...
    181342_365332586871726_949436502_n.jpg Francesco Puglisi and Vincenzo Vecchi, the two of the’Genoa 10′ to receive the most severe sentences for crimes of “devastation and looting” – 15 and 13 years – ...
  • Two anti-fascists remanded 4th of July, after ...
    4th of July, at Presnenski district court of Moscow, judge Dmitry Dolgopolov fulfilled request of the police to imprison two of the six anti-fascists, who were remanded in night of second of July, not far from club "Barrikada". 23 year old Irin ...
  • Verdicts in for the Genoa 10: guilty
    314755_361569740580957_275302870_n.jpg The Italian High Court confirmed on Friday 13th July the sentences for the 10 activists on trial for crimes of “devastation and looting” during the G8 summit in ...
  • Turkish Airlines Strike: workers up against bo ...
    29may.jpg An article by the section of the International Communist Current in Turkey about the recent Turkish Airlines strike. The world economic crisis is getting more on more ...

Free Range International

  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...
  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...
  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity – Mann ...
    Wake up America!! Mormon shill and Mitt Romney lackey Glenn Beck crosses the proverbial line on his FOX TV show, and interviews author G. Edward Griffin – exposing the problems with the PRIVATE “Federal” Reserve system.   OOPS!  That was a most severe no-no you committed there ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Moving to a New Location
    Scotts Contracting is Moving For the Past week or so I have been moving into a new Work Shop, Office, and Warehouse.  Stay tuned for further Details. Build Green, Scotty
  • Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...
    I am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy Blunt are at the bo ...
  • Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
    GRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
  • Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
    Climate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Multinationals Behind the Civil War in Syria
    In my opinion, a brilliant analysis by Tony Cartalucci at Land Destroyer Report is a must-read: chiefly because it identifies the corporate interests behind creating, funding and arming the Free Syrian Army, the Syrian National Council and other rebel groups that have taken up arms against the A ...
  • The Plot Thickens: ALEC and the IRS
    According to Brendan Fischer of PR Watch, Marcus Owens, former chief of the Internal Revenue’s non-profit division has just filed a complaint with the IRS that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has violated the terms of its nonprofit status by lobbying on behalf of its corpo ...
  • Russia’s New Muscle
    The Russian PAK-FA (T50) Below an interesting article from the Australian Business Spectator provides an intriguing analysis of the global positioning behind Russia’s stand on Syria. One Americans won’t find in the US business press. Among the issues highlighted is the fact that Rus ...
  • Homeless Indian Kids Start Their Own Bank
    In a shelter for homeless runaway teens in New Delhi, the residents have created an unlikely society where everything from healthcare to banking has been initiated, implemented and executed by the kids themselves.     If video fails to play, go to: http://www.rt.com/news/ ...
  • An Unlikely Folk Hero
    Multimillionaire Kim Dotcom Last March, I blogged about Kim Dotcom [1], the Internet multimillionaire the FBI is trying to extradite to the US on Internet piracy charges. In brief the FBI is accusing the founder of Mega Upload of illegal file sharing and copyright violation. Dotcom, much of the ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.
  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do No ...
    The UN Arms Trade Treaty that has been identified by observers as a flagrant threat to the second amendment and which Barack Obama is determined to sign has its roots in a 1961 State Department memorandum which explains how the United Nations will oversee “complete disarmament” of the American p ...
  • Syria’s top security ministers slain in Damasc ...
    Syria’s deputy defense minister Assef Shawkat and security Chief General Hisham Ikhtiyar have been killed in a bomb attack on a security building in the capital Damascus. Syrian Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha was also killed in the bombing at the headquarters of the National Security Bureau on W ...
  • US West Coast to receive dangerous levels of F ...
    ­It’s been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese. Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to America, and it could be more toxic than thought. Researchers have released the findings of an ...
  • 1 Million People join in France waiting for Al ...
    Hundreds of thousands of believers are flocking to Bugarach, France to be saved from Doomsday on December 21, 2012. An Alien Spaceship will rescue all who are near the sacred Pic De Bugarach Mountain before the apocalypse hits, the mass media reported. Are you prepared for the end of the world o ...
  • 12 NATO oil tankers torched in eastern Afghanistan
    Taliban militants have attacked 12 NATO tankers carrying fuel for US-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports. Afghan officials said that one driver was killed and four security guards were injured late on Sunday when the militants set the tankers on fire in Sayed-Abad district, Warda ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Netanyahu says Russia and Israel on same page ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye on the dangers of Iranâs nuclear weapons program. The two leaders met for over an hour in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, Syria, Egypt and bilateral ties. âWe agree that nuclear weapon ...
  • Apple, Microsoft, now Google: I/O 2012 closes ...
    First Apple , then Microsoft , and now it’s Google ‘s turn: three weeks of back-to-back mobile strategy with each of the big three companies laying out their stalls for smartphones and tablets. It’s arguably never been such an interesting time in mobility, but nor has there ever been so much at ...
  • Google appears to aim low with new 7-inch Andr ...
    If the rumors are true, Google's Nexus 7 tablet will compete with the low-end Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, not Apple's iPad. If the stories from Gizmodo Australia are true, Google and Asus will be releasing a new 7-inch Android-powered tablet, Nexus 7 , at this week’s Google I/O Conference. We ...

Groklaw

  • When It Comes to IP Enforcement Bills, It's th ...
    The recently maligned IP Attaché Act is just one in a long line of IP bills that include seemingly innocuous provisions that could later prove to be harmful to innovation and the free flow of information. In February I gave a talk at the University of Colorado that showed how over a decade, sup ...
  • OSI Opens For Membership
    You can finally join OSI....The goal of all this is to turn OSI into a member-driven non-profit that's a neutral venue for the things that are inappropriate or impossible anywhere else.... The new Individual Membership category is the powerhouse of the change, connecting the resources from the ...
  • RedPhone now GPLv3
    RedPhone, our Android application for making secure voice calls, is now available as Free and Open Source Software! As with TextSecure, we hope that making RedPhone OSS will enable access to secure communication for even more people around the world, with an even larger number of developers cont ...
  • Senator Al Franken grills FBI, Facebook, and o ...
    Senator Al Franken, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, prodded witnesses today in a hearing on facial recognition technology, making pointed remarks about the potential of abuse by law enforcement officials and private corporations. ...One such company that c ...
  • Justice Scalia: No feud with Justice Roberts o ...
    In his first public comment since the U.S. Supreme Court's health care decision, Justice Antonin Scalia denied reports that he and Chief Justice John Roberts feuded over the June 28 ruling.... Scalia, laughing, said, "You should not believe what you read about the court in the newspapers. Becaus ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • We Need Freaks. Barry Hyman
    My friend Barry Hyman just finished recording a new CD. In the meantime, until it’s released, listen to We Need Freaks, which is a fun, Beat, spoken semi-rant about politics and why we need an opposition.The post We Need Freaks. Barry Hyman appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Several key Syria officials killed by bomb
    #Syria the bomb was inside a water cooler in the room which was packed with 25 top thugs and was remote detonated from a distance— riad al asaad (@fsa_hq_syria) July 18, 2012The government of Syria is crumbling. They swore Damascus would always be safe and now several key and irreplaceable ...
  • Social media. Bodybuilding.com and MaxMuscle g ...
    Bodybuilding.com and Max Muscle use social media to create interactive sites that build community while Active.com limps along, unable to do even the obvious.I’m back into training for half marathons now. Active.com lists races across the country, allowing you to sign up on their site. But ...
  • Putin’s geopolitical realism on Syria
    The comparison of statecraft between Russia and the United States is unflattering. Russia has vastly fewer cards to play, but because Putin has grounded his policy in an assessment the realities of power, has limited his objectives to those within Russia’s means and related those to a larger dip ...
  • Why do so many blogs have no contact information?
    The purpose of blogs is to communicate but too many bloggers ignore one of the most obvious ways, email. Comments are great but email is also a time-honored and effective method for getting conversations going. Yet many blogs don’t list an email address.I’ve been slogging through blo ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...
  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...
  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...
  • The rhythms of blogging and other work
    I had a great, though short, get-together with Josh Foust today. Josh is a top-notch analyst of the United States' various interventions(!) in Afghanistan and the other 'Stans over the past ten years. His work first came to my notice back in my old 'heavy-blogging' days-- let's say, in around 20 ...
  • The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
    I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...

frogblog

  • Unacceptable abuse of children in care
    CYFS is not keeping national records of the numbers of children abused in its care. Meanwhile the Government could be supporting a simple initiative that would help to improve the experiences of children and young people in care through an independent support network.
  • GE research innovation.
    U.S consumers are getting the chance to comment on a new GE crop. And what is this exciting new crop that will feed the starving poor and revolutionise horticulture? Just what we’ve always wanted: it’s an apple that doesn’t go brown when you cut it in half.
  • UN focus on NZ women
    The Government will be in front of the U.N Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination tomorrow our time, and all expectations are they will not be given any gold stars. NGOs and the Human Rights Commission have already presented and raised some serious concerns ...
  • Protecting the Mokihinui
    At its July meeting the West Coast Conservation Board decided unanimously to request the New Zealand Conservation Authority to use its powers under section 8 of the National Parks Act to investigate adding the Mokihinui River catchment to Kahurangi National Park. I have written to Conservation M ...
  • Public servants go on scrapheap while consulta ...
    Tough financial times? Not if you’re a consultant working for the National Government on one of its poor priority pet projects. Today’s revelation that the Government has spent $200 million in the past three years for transport consultants to work on its roads of national significance reveal a s ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Break Out the Champagne! EFT One Step Closer t ...
    By Dr. Mercola A historic moment in the era of emotional freedom techniques (EFT) has arrived, with the finding that EFT is closer to meeting the criteria for evidence-based treatments proposed by the American Psychological Association (APA). In a critical review scheduled to appear in the ...
  • Why a Decline in Mammography Rates is Really G ...
    By Dr. Mercola The "C" word; probably the most feared word there is in healthcare. Just the mere mention of cancer conjures up images of death and despair. Cancer screening like annual mammograms is the conventional go-to “prevention” strategy. But researchers increasingly agree that mammogra ...
  • Factory Fed Fish: Monsanto's and Cargill's Pla ...
    By Dr. Mercola The mass cultivation of genetically modified (GM) soybeans has a hugely detrimental environmental and health impact worldwide. As it stands, soy is widely used in our diets, in processed foods and found in most meat, as soy is fed to animals on CAFOs (concentrated animal feedi ...
  • Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies Already ...
    By Dr. Mercola When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK's Daily Mail1 proved it to be true. They've really done it... they've created humans that nature could never all ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline: GUILTY in Largest Health Frau ...
    By Dr. Mercola One of the biggest news stories relating to health right now is the finalization of the biggest lawsuit yet by the American government against a pharmaceutical company. On July 2, the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty to three counts of criminal misdemeanor and ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Police arrest illegal goldminers in Brazil’s Y ...
    Brazil's Yanomami have protested for years about the devastating impact of mining. © Hutukara/ Survival A year long investigation into criminal activities in the territory of Brazil’s Yanomami tribe has led to the arrest of 26 goldminers. Gold, motor boats, dredging equipment, firearm ...
  • Ads target Machu Picchu tourists in row over u ...
    Uncontacted tribes share the same 'Sacred Valley' as Machu Picchu. The ancient site attracts up to 1 million tourists each year. © Icelight/Wikicommons Visitors to Peru’s most iconic tourist attraction, Machu Picchu, are being targeted by a new online ad campaign, in a row over a ...
  • Vietnam buys into Peru’s controversial oil fields
    PetroVietnam has taken on oil blocks in an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes © Survival Vietnamese oil company PetroVietnam has bought a stake in two Peruvian oil blocks in a region known to be inhabited by uncontacted tribes. The company has bought a 52.6% stake in Anglo-French Perenc ...
  • Outrage as World Bank funds power lines linked ...
    The Gibe III dam threatens the livelihoods of 200,000 Lower Omo tribal people, including the Karo. © Survival Human rights organizations, including Survival and Human Rights Watch, have fiercely criticized a decision by the World Bank to fund power lines in Ethiopia linked to the controvers ...
  • Anoushka Shankar backs Survival
    Anoushka Shankar supports Survival International and the need to 'protect all cultures'. © Survival British Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar shows her support for Survival International and tribal peoples by modelling an exclusive new limited edition T-shirt desig ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...
  • Bixi: a stroke of genius, but in need of some ...
    It's time for Montreal, which took Paris's Vélib' bicycle-sharing setup and turned it into its own innovative and wildly successful Bixi program, to do something sensible with its struggling and indebted stroke of genius.
  • Student protests, pro and con
    "" I am reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw that read: "Hire a student while they still know everything."
  • Bravo to the government's big step toward openness
    A task force exploring ways that open governance can be brought to public administration in Quebec has produced a welcome report that represents a step in the right direction.

Food World Order

  • Texas Republican Party calls for mandatory GMO ...
    from naturalnews.com: Delegates from the Texas Republican Party recently gathered in Fort Worth to iron out their party's official 2012 platform. And in the official platform document, it is spelled out that the Texas Republican Party is in full support of mandatory labeling of genetically-mod ...
  • US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemic ...
    from guardian.co.uk: Two Harvard engineers are to spray sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The field experiment in solar geoengineering aims to ultimately create a technology to ...
  • EU agency lifts lid on drug data secrets
    from chicagotribune.com: Europe's medicines regulator, criticized in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of pages of clinical trial information. The change is a landmark in tra ...
  • A World Without Fences: A Review of Will Allen ...
    from civileats.com: When his mother left their sharecropping land in South Carolina, there were 900,000 farms in the U.S. operated by African Americans. Now here he was, about to become one of the 18,000 that do so today. That 98 percent drop, he seems to have concluded, might be a part of th ...
  • Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore: 'Than ...
    from climatedepot.com: Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore commented a new study trying to explain the lack of global warming: The new study claims: 'Abrupt increase' in CO2 absorption slowed global warming: Excerpt: 'The earth would have warmed faster in the last two decades had there no ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs That All Point To The Exact Same Thin ...
    The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble.  There aren't enough jobs.  There isn't enough money to go around.  Business activity is slowing down again.  Household wealth has been falling.  Food prices have been rising.  Many state and local governments all over the count ...
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    Is the petrodollar dead?  Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this.  For decades, most of the nations of the world have used the U.S. dollar to buy oil and to trade with each other.  In essence, the U.S. dollar has been acting as a tru ...
  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Dave, The Great Dictator and His Conservative ...
    On the day the Daily Express places the UK's greater trade with the non-EU world front page and claims that our trade data has "sent a defiant message to Europe", the Conservative Party have followed in the well worn path set by their former Prime Minister, the hated traitor Edward Heath - stick ...
  • Quote of the Day: (Hopefully) Goodbye European ...
    "THE EU is no longer the UK’s main export market, according to research published today by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR)." - Ben Southwood report for the highly respected City A.M. ...especially stark considering so many of our 'exports' to the EU are fiddled by cou ...
  • Ten Years in Jail: Not terrorism or murder... ...
    After almost a decade languishing in Scottish prisons, Steve Gough - also known as the Naked Rambler - was finally released from prison today. This time, the authorities north of the border decided that they would not re-arrest him for being naked and Gough - determined to stand up for his right ...
  • Cowardly Custard Cameron Fearful of Facing Farage?
    Yesterday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage went to Downing Street to present a letter challenging Prime Minister David Cameron to a public debate on the UK's membership of the hated European Union. It is a challenge that was thrown down by Nigel Farage several weeks ago but thus far, the can-kicking ...
  • 2 Faced: The Observer takes the money and...
    The Observer launches into a left-right paradigm flurry of talcum powder today, aiming all it's traditional despising of 'Big Oil' and the American 'Tea Party' at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC, the report tells us, are - thankfully in our view - seeking to intervene o ...

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Is the mysterious “zombie disease” ...
    *Listen to expert Dr Rebecca Carley discuss the latest pandemic hype surrounding a “zombie disease” on Sunday, 15th July, with myself as a guest *Symptoms of children in Uganda and Tanzania similar to narcolepsy caused by Pandemrix pandemic vaccine *Vaccine tweaked with rabies virus ...
  • Guest on radio show of Len Horowitz and Sherri ...
    Whistleblowers Burgermeister, Horowitz and Kane Unite to Expose COINTELPRO, Alex Jones, and Others From: www.Healthyworldstore.com . Vaccination Opponents Protest Alex Jones’s and “‘True’ Ott’s” Propaganda >> for BigPharma.  Honolulu–Exposing how ...
  • Canada: Swine flu vaccine linked to increased ...
    By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News July 10, 2012 The 2009 human “swine flu” vaccine given to millions of Canadians was associated with twice the normal risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome — a rare but potentially paralyzing nerve disorder, Quebec researchers are reporting. http: ...
  • Libor interest scandal could be “biggest ...
    LIBOR scandal set to rock U.S. as experts warn it could be ‘the biggest consumer fraud in history’ By James Nye, Daily Mail PUBLISHED: 06:25 GMT, 12 July 2012 | UPDATED: 07:43 GMT, 12 July 2012 As the investigation into the LIBOR interest rate-rigging in the United Kingdom becom ...
  • Germans reject compulsory souveriegn bond purc ...
    A plan floated by the German government to force citizens to buy state debt bonds to pay international super rich creditor, skinning coutnry’s through the debt as money system , could well be the final straw. Read this comment in German on Jenny’s Blog: http://jennyger.blog.de/2012/07/13/e ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Crust of Ignorance and the Jesus Bunny
    By Les Visible It seems that the most difficult thing to make happen is to come into a state of mind where your focus is upon the direct, resident essential, as opposed to the projected appearance of manifested and diabolically controlled phenomena, which is no more than the fading echo of somet ...
  • Russian Central Bank Ready to Make Due Payment ...
    Russian Head of Iran-Russia Joint Trade Council Yuri Papoyev made the remarks on Tuesday on the sidelines of the first meeting of the two countries’ regional cooperation workgroup in Tabriz city, Northwestern Iran. The Russian move would circumvent the western sanctions against Tehran&#821 ...
  • Genocidal Cereal Killer Released
    A LONG-STANDING project of the US Government has been to perfect a genetically-modified variety of corn, the diet staple in Mexico and many other Latin American countries. The field-testing of the corn has been financed by the US Department of Agriculture along with a small California bio-tech c ...
  • Human corpses harvested in multimillion-dollar ...
    Kate Willson, Vlad Lavrov, Martina Keller, Thomas Maier and Gerard Ryle On February 24, Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in a grimy white minibus. Investigators grew even more intrigued when they found, amid the body parts, enve ...
  • India seeks action over UAE boat shooting
    India has called on the United Arab Emirates to investigate the fatal shooting of an Indian fisherman by a US navy ship in waters off Dubai, the country’s foreign ministry has confirmed. “India’s ambassador in Abu Dhabi has requested UAE authorities to probe the circumstances o ...

Veterans Today

  • Mark Zuckerberg Awarded CIA Surveillance Medal
    - CIA - Facebook Contributed More to Monitoring Americans than All Other Sources Combined
  • Media and the 9/11 cover-up: BBC accused of br ...
    The media have been utterly complicit in the deception since the first moments after the North Tower was hit. Take BBC - please!
  • U.S. Recruitment, Killing of Children
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled "combatants," and the provis ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...
    Read about one woman’s journey to take her life into her own hands and how she’s inspiring other athletes at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games.
  • Israel and Russia, New “Best Friends”
    When opportunity knocks… …Israel disses US while seeking ‘bi-lateral alliance’ with Russia   By Franklin Lamb Beirut    Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about su ...

electric politics

  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "Age of Ignorance"
    By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
  • Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
    Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Missile Shield May Spark Chinese Nuclear ...
    The News International July 19, 2012 Missile shield may spark China nuclear upgrade ==== Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, said any American military planner in Zhu’s position would say the same. Planned anti-missile systems and other advanced w ...
  • March on Damascus: Precedents
    Rome 1922 Munich 1923 Madrid 1939 Hillary Clinton with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal
  • Mali: Next Victim Of Western “Peace Crus ...
    Voice of Russia July 18, 2012 Mali – one more victim of the Western “peace crusade”? Dmitry Babich ==== What is indeed astounding is the fact that the NATO countries continue to trumpet their operation in Libya as a great success. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example, praised the vict ...
  • Nothing Civil about Washington’s War on ...
    SteveLendman Blog July 18, 2012 Nothing Civil about Washington’s War on Syria By Stephen Lendman Insurgents are Washington proxies. Key NATO partners, rogue Arab League states, and Israel are very much involved.  The same dirty game repeats. Independent states are targeted for regime ...
  • Experience of NATO States Provides Stark Warni ...
    Ekklesia July 17, 2012 Experience of NATO states provides ‘stark warning’ to SNP The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has today (17 July) expressed concern at the news that the Scottish National Party (SNP) is to reconsider its stance against NATO membership. The SNP has revealed that a mo ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • ICRC Supports Imperialism for Profit
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com July 18, 2012 Progressive News Hour regular James Petras once said most NGOs skim 90% of donations for themselves. They’re predators, not humanitarians. They serve political agendas for profit. They avoid denouncing governmental patrons provi ...
  • Olympiad Readiness: Militarized London Total P ...
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com July 18, 2012 Olympism today differs vastly from its Athens roots. A previous article explained it’s more about profiteering, exploitation, and cynicism than sport. Militarized London reflects something more. A 2011 “Total Policing&#822 ...
  • Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse ...
    forbes.com | Portuguese officials said their decision to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them has worked.
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    theintelhub.com | Virtually every country on the face of the earth has needed big piles of U.S. dollars for international trade.
  • National Security Threat: Obama’s Birth Certif ...
    Infowars.com | Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s cold case posse has confirmed that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is “definitely fraudulent,” prompting the media and political establishment to launch a frenzied spin campaign in an effort to deflect attention from the astound ...

FRS

  • Local community and class struggles in South A ...
    Protest and Repression in South Africa from Counterpunch by PATRICK BOND, July 17, 2012 Durban, South Africa. The recent surge of unconnected community protests across South Africa confirms the country’s profound social, economic and environmental contradictions. But if activists fall before a n ...
  • Every 36 Hours A Black Person is Killed by the ...
    Updated Report,  Monday, July 16, 2012 Report on Black People Executed without Trial by Police, Security Guards and Self-Appointed Law Enforcers — (January 1 – June 30, 2012) Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) This report was produced for the “No More Trayvon Martins Campaign”, dem ...
  • EXPANDING US EMPIRE OF BASES: THE LILY-PAD STR ...
      How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War by David Vine, Pambazuka, July 15, 2012 The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane was a void — something missing. A [...]
  • Maoist India: The Search for Economic Justice
    [Produced three years ago, this video report from New York-based Free Speech Radio News, provided an interesting view of the Maoist base in what the Indian bourgeois media calls (with some hyperbole) "the red corridor." -- Frontlines ed.] produced December 25, 2009
  • Indian Maoists’ “Red Salute” ...
    “Advance with resolute determination in the path of People’s War to fulfill the aims of our great martyrs !“ “Let us comprehend and pound the deceitful LIC policy of the enemy and preserve the leadership and our subjective forces !” “Let us strengthen the Party and ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
  • Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
    Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Zimmerman Surrenders to Authorities
    George Zimmerman is back behind bars.Contributor: TJ Larson Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Why Does Florida Have Repeated Election Problems?
    Florida is having voter controversies this year and the general election isn't even here yet.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Texas Teacher of the Year Arrested for Sexting ...
    John McDaniel, 32, days after being named Teacher of the Year, is arrested for inappropriate relationship with student. Recent cases like this have prompted Texas to re-examine its policy on social media.Contributor: Dori Starnes Published: Jun 01, 2012
  • Hold onto Your Fountain Drinks, New Yorkers!
    Bloomberg's administration propose a ban on sugary drinks in order to combat rising obesity in NYC.Contributor: Brianna Peterson Published: May 31, 2012
  • Defense of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional ...
    The Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) has been ruled unconstitutional yet again. Coming on the heels of two California federal judges ruling DoMA unconstitutional, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has now also issued a rulingContributor: Christopher Beheler Published: May 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Geoengineers Will Release Tons of Sun-Reflecti ...
    Even if they can be a major disaster for people nearby them, volcanoes do one good thing: helping to cool the planet by sending sun-reflecting chemicals into the stratosphere. Now two Harvard engineers are trying to replicate the better part of the volcanic process on a small scale by spraying ...
  • Enter the Popular Science/InnoCentive Mercury ...
    A great new challenge from InnoCentive, with a nice hefty prize, all centering around improving natural gas operations. Mercury, which as we all know is highly toxic, is present in low concentrations in natural gas. There are lots of methods to remove it, but they could definitely be better--an ...
  • Astronomers Spot Ancient Spiral Galaxy From an ...
    Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have stumbled on a rare and surprising find: A very distant spiral galaxy, swirling billions of light years away, which formed at a time when such spiral galaxies were thought to be nonexistent. Researchers say it’s an astounding discovery — partly b ...
  • Reporting From Undersea Base Aquarius
    At a depth of 63 feet, nestled among the coral reefs of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, sits Aquarius, the world's only permanent undersea research station. Writing for Gizmodo, friend of PopSci and half-man, half-fish Brian Lam is giving us a week-long picture of what life and work ...
  • IBM Supercomputer Simulates Common Cold Virus
    For humans, few things are as ubiquitous as the common cold. We catch it more than any other infectious disease and it's been with us as about as long as we've existed. But while there isn't a cure, our technology is constantly improving, and now in our corner we have Australia's fastest superc ...

Veterans Today

  • Mark Zuckerberg Awarded CIA Surveillance Medal
    - CIA - Facebook Contributed More to Monitoring Americans than All Other Sources Combined
  • Media and the 9/11 cover-up: BBC accused of br ...
    The media have been utterly complicit in the deception since the first moments after the North Tower was hit. Take BBC - please!
  • U.S. Recruitment, Killing of Children
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled "combatants," and the provis ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...
    Read about one woman’s journey to take her life into her own hands and how she’s inspiring other athletes at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games.
  • Israel and Russia, New “Best Friends”
    When opportunity knocks… …Israel disses US while seeking ‘bi-lateral alliance’ with Russia   By Franklin Lamb Beirut    Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about su ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...
  • Poor summer weather to continue well into July
    UPDATE at 5PM According to the Met Office, averaged across the UK, June 2012 has been the wettest since records began in 1910, the coolest since 1991, and the second dullest since records began (record for lowest sunshine in June is still 1987). ENDS It will come as no surprise that June in Y ...
  • Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
    After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...
  • 'Flaming' June washout set to continue
    The very unsettled weather which has plagued June so far looks set to continue. Rainfall totals at the weekend were again in excess of an inch (25mm) across parts of North Yorkshire; this followed a very wet and cool Jubilee weekend. With another area of low pressure set to spoil things this ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Priceless: Mastercard/Visa Win at WTO vs China
    Yours truly has long noted that the PRC has not been too forthcoming about allowing foreign financial services providers to do business in China. As it turns out, not only is it difficult for foreign banks to set up branches in the mainland, but it is also difficult for American credit card firm ...
  • Doesn't Guanxi Work in the US for Chinee Firms?
    Let us begin by defining "guanxi" [關係], or forming relationships crucial to doing business in China:  “Guanxi” literally means "relationships", stands for any type of relationship. In the Chinese business world, however, it is also understood as the network of relationships among various ...
  • Catholic Church on Finance and Financial Crises
    I once again came upon the pre-Benedict XVI Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004) while looking for something else. While Marginal Revolution's all-purpose commentator Tyler Cowen may be no fan of Caritas in veritate, he does state that "our versions of capitalism and democracy ...
  • SE Asia Proxies: Philippines/US vs Cambodia/PRC
    I guess it's ARF-ARF: Because the current rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is none other than Cambodia, it is no surprise that it has been more partial to China. To the disappointment of the Philippines and Vietnam, Cambodia has been unwilling to bring up the South Ch ...
  • Huawei to Hell: PRC Threatens Trade Spat w/ EU
    There's so much controversy over Chinese-made and -designed telecommunications gear: While the American solution to denying market access to budding Chinese telecoms giants / national champions Huawei and ZTE is to treat them as security threats--their investment is not welcome in the "Land of t ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 20 Signs That All Point To The Exact Same Thin ...
    The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble.  There aren't enough jobs.  There isn't enough money to go around.  Business activity is slowing down again.  Household wealth has been falling.  Food prices have been rising.  Many state and local governments all over the count ...
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    Is the petrodollar dead?  Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this.  For decades, most of the nations of the world have used the U.S. dollar to buy oil and to trade with each other.  In essence, the U.S. dollar has been acting as a tru ...
  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...

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E U Times

  • Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do No ...
    The UN Arms Trade Treaty that has been identified by observers as a flagrant threat to the second amendment and which Barack Obama is determined to sign has its roots in a 1961 State Department memorandum which explains how the United Nations will oversee “complete disarmament” of the American p ...
  • Syria’s top security ministers slain in Damasc ...
    Syria’s deputy defense minister Assef Shawkat and security Chief General Hisham Ikhtiyar have been killed in a bomb attack on a security building in the capital Damascus. Syrian Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha was also killed in the bombing at the headquarters of the National Security Bureau on W ...
  • US West Coast to receive dangerous levels of F ...
    ­It’s been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese. Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to America, and it could be more toxic than thought. Researchers have released the findings of an ...
  • 1 Million People join in France waiting for Al ...
    Hundreds of thousands of believers are flocking to Bugarach, France to be saved from Doomsday on December 21, 2012. An Alien Spaceship will rescue all who are near the sacred Pic De Bugarach Mountain before the apocalypse hits, the mass media reported. Are you prepared for the end of the world o ...
  • 12 NATO oil tankers torched in eastern Afghanistan
    Taliban militants have attacked 12 NATO tankers carrying fuel for US-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports. Afghan officials said that one driver was killed and four security guards were injured late on Sunday when the militants set the tankers on fire in Sayed-Abad district, Warda ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
  • Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
    I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
  • Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
    Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
  • Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
    The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
  • Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
    It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...

WL Central

  • 2012-07-18 WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by U.S financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing U.S. war crimes and statecraft in 2010, U.S. financial institutions erected a banking blocka ...
  • 2012-07-18 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks op ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 592 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 589 days. - 29 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 786 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. with ...
  • 2012-07-17 Condi and Hillary's "Tug of War" wi ...
    For isolated and impoverished countries, it can sometimes prove difficult to pursue an independent foreign policy which challenges Washington's traditional sphere of influence. Take, for example, tiny Paraguay which has recently been convulsed in political instability. Four years ago, Fernando L ...
  • 2012-07-15 Après Assange, Le Déluge
    King Louis XV is widely credited with the phrase “Après moi, le déluge” (after me, the deluge), although it may have been spoken by Madame de Pompadour, his official mistress (the title was by appointment at the time: she divorced her husband after assuming the position). In any case, it was pro ...
  • 2012-07-10 Julia Gillard comes clean on WikiLeaks
    I bumped into Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the train yesterday. I mean, literally bumped. I was lurching towards the last available seat on the 4:45 pm from Central when I tripped and collapsed over the armrest beside her, momentarily dislodging the blonde wig she was wearing as a ...

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